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Ok, answers to questions:

No, I wasnt using cable select.

No, I wasnt changing any jumpers.

This has nothing to do with fstab - that doesnt get processed at the lilo 
point.


With all 3 drives in, I get a lilo prompt.

With hdb removed I get LI LI LI LI...

hdb is NOT mentioned in lilo.conf, so why does removing that drive affect 
lilo?

Cheers.

Mark.


> On Friday 07 March 2003 09:33 pm, Gary Hodder wrote:
> > Hi Mark,
> >
> > with the 3 drives in and it boots normally, edit the fstab file and
> > change the hdc? to hdb?
> > ? being the partition number.
> > Change lilo to be hdb instead of hdc.
> > Reboot with a floppy, at lilo promp: linux root=/dev/hdb?
> > ? being the partition number the os is on.
> > Run lilo.
> > Reboot to boot from kernel on harddrive.
> >
> > Gary.
>
> and next time, don't use "cable select" as the way to choice master and
> slave HDs, use the jumpers on the drive itself.
>
> > On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 22:19, Mark Watts wrote:
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> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I have a system with 3 harddrives in it (hda = Windows, hdb = spare
> > > (part XFS, part FAT32) and hdc = Linux (resierfs).
> > > I installed Windows first, followed by 9.0 on hdc, and chose to install
> > > lilo to hda's boot sector.
> > > This has been working just fine since I installed.
> > > I've come to a point where I'm moving hdb out of the system...
> > > Whenever I remove it, I get the ubiquitos LI LI LI LI LI across the
> > > screen, indicating that lilo is toast. Putting the drive back makes
> > > everything work as before.
> > >
> > > 2 questions:
> > >
> > > 1) Should lilo really be doing this, bearing in mind that hdb isnt
> > > mentioned in lilo.conf (It has an old 8.2 install I havent removed yet
> > > on it, but I'd have to make a boot disk to boot from it).
> > >
> > > 2) If I re-reun lilo (from a rescue cd and chrooting stuff) without
> > > changing lilo.conf, will that fix the LI LI LI issue?
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > Mark.
> > >
> > > - --
> > > Mark Watts
> > > Systems Engineer
> > > QinetiQ TIM
> > > St Andrews Road, Malvern
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